Bumblebee allows you to run specific programs on the discrete graphic card, inside of an X session using the integrated graphic card.

Bumblebee allows you to run specific programs on the discrete graphic card, inside of an X session using the integrated graphic card.

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[http://www.martin-juhl.dk/ Martin Juhl] started with the project and published under GPL v3. To improve co-operation, some developers decided to fork the project into a team: [https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee Bumblebee-Project].

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[http://www.martin-juhl.dk/ Martin Juhl] started with the project and published under GPL v3 and now continues with [Ironhide] (deprecated). To improve co-operation, developers decided to fork the project into a team: [http://Bumblebee-Project/ Bumblebee-Project].

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===What it does - and does not===

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=== Installation ===

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Currently, Ubuntu and Arch Linux is supported by the installer. Work is in progress to support Fedora, Debian and OpenSUSE.

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Bumblebee 2.4 and before was written in Bash and has now been superseded by Bumblebee 3.0, which is written in C.

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Many distributions are supported, including Arch Linux, Debian, Mandriva and Ubuntu. For the latest installation

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instructions, see http://wiki.bumblebee-project.org/Install-and-usage.

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Arch Linux and Gentoo are support by:

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Ubuntu users (especially when upgrading) see [http://askubuntu.com/q/36930/6969 How well do laptops with Nvidia Optimus work?]

Latest revision as of 18:51, 7 June 2012

Bumblebee allows you to run specific programs on the discrete graphic card, inside of an X session using the integrated graphic card.
Martin Juhl started with the project and published under GPL v3 and now continues with [Ironhide] (deprecated). To improve co-operation, developers decided to fork the project into a team: Bumblebee-Project.

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Installation

Bumblebee 2.4 and before was written in Bash and has now been superseded by Bumblebee 3.0, which is written in C.
Many distributions are supported, including Arch Linux, Debian, Mandriva and Ubuntu. For the latest installation
instructions, see http://wiki.bumblebee-project.org/Install-and-usage.

Uninstalling

Source

If you're really using an old version (from MrMEEE, versions prior to 2.3), you are screwed.
If you have installed Bumblebee 2.4 from git, run `bumblebee-uninstall`.
Version 3.0 and later can be uninstalled from the source directory by running `make uninstall`.